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Definitions: Thatch |
ThatchNoun1. Hair resembling thatched roofing material. 2. Plant stalks used as roofing material. 3. An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718). 4. A house roof made with a plant material (as straw). Verb1. Cover with thatch; of roofs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thatch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you thatch a roof with any quickly, perishable material, denotes that sorrow and discomfort will surround you. If you find that a roof which you have thatched with straw is leaking, there will be threatenings of danger, but by your rightly directed energy they may be averted. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ThatchSynonym: thatched roof (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Roof, ceiling, thatch, tile; pantile, pentile; tiling, slates, slating, leads; barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed; (abode). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Thatch |
| English words defined with "thatch": Edward Thatch ♦ house sparrow ♦ Nipa fruticans, nipa palm ♦ Rancho ♦ silver thatch ♦ Thacker, thatch palm, thatch tree, Thatched, Thatching. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thatch": CRYOSOPHILA WARCEWICZII ♦ GEONOMA CONGESTA ♦ Palma de Jicara, PHYTELEPHAS SEEMANNII ♦ SABAL ALLENII, SCHEELIA ZONENSIS ♦ Thatch, THATCH PLANT, thatched roof disease. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thatch": tegument, toga. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Thatch of Night (1990) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | East end of Thatch Cay, U. S. Virgin Islands Old derelict, victim of storms past.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Dismantling the signal at Station Out, Thatch Cay Cleaning up at the end of a project Lt.(j.g.) Mike Kuhl cutting wire securing signal.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Islands in the stream - the cays on the north side of Pillsbury Sound British Virgin Islands to the left - St. Johns to the right Picture taken from the top of Thatch Cay.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A grass thatch hut.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Looking across Pillsbury Sound to Thatch Cay.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "Water Bay and Native Bringing in Fodder from Thatch Cay, St. Thomas." In: "The Virgin Islands Our New Possessions and the British Islands", by Theodoor De Booy and John T. Faris, 1918. J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. P. 40. Library Call Number C/hc100 V81 B.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Thatch roof and woven bamboo walls on native dwelling.Credit: Small World. |  | Food in Britain. Age is no obstacle to war work in Britain. Harry Kind, a sergeant during the Boer War, now seventy-one years old, works a full farming day. Here he is about to thatch a hay-rick. Approximately 700,000 old-age pensioners have braced themse.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Then, moreover, the white locks of age were sometimes found to be the thatch of an intellectual tenement in good repair. |
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Health | Avoid sleeping in thatch, mud, or adobe houses. (references) | |
Use bed nets if sleeping in mud or thatch houses. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Burma | Typically little more than thatch huts, the mosques reportedly were constructed without proper authority by villagers who had difficulty reaching mosques in neighboring towns due to strict travel restrictions on Muslims. (references) |
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| "Thatch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.44% of the time. "Thatch" is used about 122 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.44% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.74% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 122 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "thatch" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Thatch | Last name | 400 | 19,925 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "thatch": Edward Thatch ♦ silver thatch ♦ thatch palm ♦ thatch roof ♦ thatch sparrow ♦ thatch tree. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "thatch": thatch-eaves, thatch-roofed, thatch-stone. | |
Ending with "thatch": reed-thatch, roof-thatch, sago-thatch, straw-thatch, tents-under-thatch, wood-and-thatch. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thatch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kashtë (chaff, haulm, straw, stubble), çati kashte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قش (broom, chaff, haulm, hay, straw, stubble, whisk), سقف من القش, سقف البيت بالقش, سقف (ceil, ceiling, covering, overheads, roof, roofing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слагам покрив от слама, слагам покрив от тръстика, сламен покрив (chopper, thatching), сплъстена коса (tangle), тръстиков покрив (thatching), гъста рошава коса. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 茅草屋顶, 茅 (crab), 苫 (straw mat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rákosová krytina, pokrýt doškovou krytinou, kštice, hříva (mane), došková střecha, došek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | thatched roof disease (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), tækkemandslunge (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), pandan (pandanus, screw pine, thatch screw pine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | riet (cane, common reed, dent, reed, reeds, tooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاهگل , کاه پوش کردن , کاه وپیزرمخصوص اندودوپوشش بام , کاه اندودکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | chaume. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reet (Reed, reeds), dachstroh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αχυροσκεπή (straw roof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לכסות בסכך, לסכך (cover, screen), קש (chaff, mulch, straw), סוכ" (booth, hut, pavilion, succah, tabernacle), סכך, סככ" (awning, covert, shed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsúptetõ, nádtetõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | nipah (nipa palm, thatch palm), ilalang (thatch-grass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tetto di paglia, ricoprire di paglia, paglia (chaff, feeding straw, flake, forage straw, loose straw, roak, roke, scab, seam, shell, sliver, spill, straw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 草葺き . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くさぶき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thoo (thatching), cur thoo er. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maya | hel-buukt (to thatch a roof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchthay cabeleira espessa. (various references) pãr des (fell), acoperiş de paie sau de stuf, acoperi o casã cu paie. (various references) соломенная крыша, густые волосы. (various references) tughadh (thatching), tugha. (various references) slama (straw), pokrivati slamom, krovinjara, gusta kosa (mane). (various references) techo de paja (thatch roof), poner techo de paja, paja (blah, chaff, drinking straw, feeding straw, forage straw, loose straw, masturbation, padding, rubbish, scab, shell, sliver, spill, straw, tap, trash, waffle), cubierta de paja (mulch). (various references) kalufs (forelock, mane). (various references) ผมที่หยาบและรุงรังเหมือนฟางมุงหลังคา, สิ่งที่ใช้มุงหลังคา, หลังคาใบจาก, ขนที่อวัยวะเพศ (muff), มุงหลังคา"้วยจาก. (various references) saman ile örtmek, saman dam örtüsü, karışık saç (mop, shock, tangled hair), kamışla kaplamak, darmadağınık saç. (various references) sypal (straw). (various references) солом'яна покрівля, солома (haulm, straw), бути покрівельником, бути покрівлею, покривати соломою. (various references) tranh (thatching), rạ (mow). (various references) toi (cover, roof). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | culmo, culmus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "thatch": thatched, thatcher, thatchers, thatches, thatchier, thatchiest, thatching, thatchy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "thatch": nuthatch. (additional references) | |
Words containing "thatch": nuthatches. (additional references) | |
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"Thatch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thach, thaith, thatc, theth, thith, thuth, Tkach, Tuath, whatch, Whatcha. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thatch" (pronounced tha"kh) |
| 2 | -a" kh | attach, batch, brach, catch, detach, dispatch, hatch, latch, mache, match, mismatch, overmatch, patch, reattach, rematch, scratch, snatch. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-t-t" | |
-1 letter: hatch. | |
-2 letters: chat, hath, tach, tact, that. | |
-3 letters: act, att, cat, hah, hat, tat. | |
-4 letters: ah, at, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-t-t" | |
+1 letter: hatchet, thatchy. | |
+2 letters: chitchat, hatchets, nuthatch, thatched, thatcher, thatches. | |
+3 letters: chitchats, hatchment, shtetlach, thatchers, thatchier, thatching, toothache. | |
+4 letters: autochthon, deathwatch, hatchments, nuthatches, thatchiest, toothaches. | |
+5 letters: autochthons, batholithic, chaetognath, chitchatted, hypothecate, throatlatch. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 61 74 63 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... .- - -.-. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h a t c h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0061 0074 0063 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)547467866974 |
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